Flavor conversion of cosmic neutrinos from hidden jets

Soebur Razzaque, A. Yu Smirnov

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Abstract

High energy cosmic neutrino fluxes can be produced inside relativistic jets under the envelopes of collapsing stars. In the energy range E ∼ (0.3 - 105)GeV, flavor conversion of these neutrinos is modified by various matter effects inside the star and the Earth. We present a comprehensive (both analytic and numerical) description of the flavor conversion of these neutrinos which includes: (i) oscillations inside jets, (ii) flavor-to-mass state transitions in an envelope, (iii) loss of coherence on the way to observer, and (iv) oscillations of the mass states inside the Earth. We show that conversion has several new features which are not realized in other objects, in particular interference effects ("L- and H- wiggles") induced by the adiabaticity violation. The ? - ? scattering inside jet and inelastic neutrino interactions in the envelope may produce some additional features at E ≤ 104 GeV.We study dependence of the probabilities and flavor ratios in the matter-affected region on angles θ13 and θ23, on the CP-phase δ, as well as on the initial flavor content and density profile of the star. We show that measurements of the energy dependence of the flavor ratios will, in principle, allow to determine independently the neutrino and astrophysical parameters.

Original languageEnglish
Article number31
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2010
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Electromagnetic processes and properties
  • Neutrino physics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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